Hi Glen,

You can't mulipath the nics, only one is supported, disable the first nic in the bios and the pci nic will be identified.

Good luck

Hello all – I’m looking for any feedback you might provide. As you’ll probably guess fairly quickly, I’m pretty much a noob at anything unix related.

The environment:
Pentium-2 300Mhz
512MB RAM
512MB CF Card as boot device
1000MB SATA HD for storage
10Mbps 3Com NIC
1000Mbps D-Link DGT 530T

I set up a test FreeNAS box using a 10mbps NIC (which of course was recognised automagically), and once satisfied with the operation of FreeNAS I wanted to upgrade the 10Mbps NIC to a gigabit NIC. I checked into supported hardware for FreeBSD, found that the D-Link DGE-530T was on the list, and picked one up. Once I installed the NIC FreeNAS would not recognise that it was present. I’ve reinstalled FreeNAS from scratch (multiple times) without any luck. The FreeBSD man pages state that the statement ‘if_sk_load=”YES”’ needs to be added to the loader.conf(5). I executed the following statements...

mount –u /cf
cd /cf/boot
echo ‘if_sk_load=”YES”’ >> loader.conf
echo ‘ifconfig_dlge0=”inet 192.168.1.249”’ >> loader.conf

I rebooted and the NIC is still not linking up. I then:
cd /etc
more < rc.conf
…and I see that the statement ‘if_sk_load=”YES”’ is included, however ‘ifconfig_dlge0=”inet 192.168.1.249”’ is not.

In any case, I’ve been reading man pages, FreeNAS docs, forums etc trying to understand why FreeNAS won’t recognise the new NIC. I’m guessing there’s likely something blatantly obvious that anyone with half a clue about unix would know, however I’m clearly not that person!

BTW – I’m wondering if there’s any point in loading the drivers provided with the NIC? If I do this, how do I get the drivers written to the CF rather than just into the RAM drive?

TIA for you assistance.

Solved this.

fdisk -uv /dev/ad1

and manually entered geometry details.

Thanks for your time and help to this newbie.

Zarko

Anybody that could help me?

How to turn a slice back to the partition?

Zarko

Hello,

I accidentally ran a fdisk command with -I instead of -i option, and after reboot, i found out that the partition ad1p1 has been changed to slice ad1s1.

Is there any way to change it back to ad1p1.

I am complete newbie to any unix or bsd systems, and I would be most grateful if somebody would help me to get my data back.

Zarko

afterhours,

Well done for solving the problem! I am sure this information will be useful for others.

Thanks for sharing it here!

Gary

Ok, so it's been a while since I posted this prob. I was just about to go to Windows Home Server on another noisy old box to see if this fixed the large file prob. Well it didn't.

Every day i've been googling for a fix for this one to no avail and then I found the answer to the 'file is too large' problem.

Turns out that vmware is very fussy and will not accept the ip folder structure. You have to fool vm that it is on a drive, so i mapped to a network drive (V:\) where the vm sits and hey presto and wonderbar. It worked.

I'm surpised that none of you SAN / NAS people contributed before me with the fix you would have saved me months. Hopefully anyone else with the same prob will find the answer here!

afterhours

I am not sure if you still need help on this, I had the same problem and my solutions was:

Add the drive under Disk -> Management but do not select a file system, leave it as unformated
Then when you mount the drive under Partition Select "1"
Select 1 for UFS formatted drive or Software RAID volume creating since the 0.683b.

Then select NTFS for File System
click add and apply

This seems to work for me ...

Hope it works for you

Saw in the promotional videos that iTunes Server is listed. Could someone please explain how you would set that up? Thinking of switching from Windows Home Server to FreeNAS and could use the information. Thanks in advance!

I'm probably being really dumb, but!

When I use QuiXplorer to copy files between FreeNAS drives the permissions change from rwxrwxrwx to rwxrwxr-x meaning that my files become read-only from my Windoze boxes :(

Any way to stop this happening??

Cheers :)